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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1937.
SIEGE
ON BOARD LINER
Radio Operators' New Version Of Sit-Down Strike
Barricaded Men Hold Out Nine Hours
Passengers' Fares Refunded
New York, To-day.
A “sit down” strike of quite a new character forced the cancellation of the sailing of a big American liner which was about to sail from New York on a pleasure cruise.
ship.
Three men were responsible for holding up the
They were the members of the staff of the wireless room. They barricaded themselves in the radio room and successfully resisted a siege until cancellation of the ship's sailing became inevitable.
It was revealed by the Com- pany that the three men had
MOTOR RACES IN
GERMANY
Track Speed Of 261 Kilometres P.H.
"Berlin, To-day:
MAROONED
IN THE DESERT
Sydney,
After an interval of exactly two years, international motor-cycle After being marooned for nine and motor racing was resumed yes- days in the great Central Aus- terday at Avus, which since com-tralian Desert, an aerial survey pletion of improvements, claims to have the fastest track in the world. Over 380,000 spectators, including Dr. Goebbels attended the meeting in glorious summer weather.
|party which made a forced des
cent and for which an anxious search was carried out for four days before the missing scient- ists were located, has at last been
In the final race, in the heavy car relieved. class, Caracciola and von Braus-
chitsch won the preliminary heats
Help came in the form of a mo- driving Mercedes Benz. In the tor transport carrying -food and final, however, luck turned and supplies which struck out into the Brauschitsch broke down on the desert as soon as the party had been first lap and Caracciola the located from the air. The motor. fourth. The winner was the Tripolis rescue party reached the scene yes- champion, Hermann Lang, driving terday,
on
2 Mercedes Benz, with Ernst von Delius in an Auto Union second.
The average speed of the win- ner was 261.7 kilometres an hour.
Trans-Ocean.
been discharged in consequence GERMANY ANNOYED BY
bolted
of another dispute, but they re- turned to the liner and themselves in the radio. room.
The deck officers and members of the crew faid siege to the strong- hold for over nine hours before' abandoning the effort, and then it was decided to return fares to all passengers and cancel the sailing.
There were over 300 passengers aboard all booked for a week-end cruise to Havana-Reuter.
CIDER
MAKING
CONTEST
Somerset Leads Again
LEAGUE DECISION
REFUSAL TO HEAR SOUTH-WEST AFRICA PROTEST
The aerial survey
is head- ed by Sir Herbert Gepp, the Com- monwealth Government geological
expert
-It appears that Sir Herbert Gepp's plane was forced down in a wild spot some eight hundred miles south of Port Darwin on May 21.
LOCATED AFTER 4 DAYS
They were located by air search parties four days later and the re- lief wagon- was despatched last Tuesday. In the meantime, planes It would be unfair of the Man- dropped food supplies to the maroon- The announcement that the date Committee to consider only one-led party, with which constant wire- memorandum addressed by the sided statements regarding the situa-less communication has been main- Germans of South-West Africation of Germans in South-West tained.
Berlin, To-day.
to the League of Nations Man-Africa emanating from a Manda- A runway is now being construct- date Committee will not be dis- tory power.
ed to permit the stranded plane to
cussed in the Committee's. June In Berlin political circles it is take off, Reuter
| meeting, but only next year, is asked whether it is intended at Cape
causing considerable criticism în Town and Geneva that Germans of Berlin political circles...
South-West Africa should be deni÷ It is pointed out here that the fed even the meagre possibilities of Memorandum was submitted to the lodging complaints permitted by the In the midst of apple orchards, South African Government some Mandate Statute.-Trans-Ocean. just coming into bloom, the annual African Government's duty to relay cider tasting event was held at the the memorandum to Geneva. Long Ashton research institute. If Pretoria wanted to apply a
The prizes were awarded to the policy of procrastination then iti apple farmers of Hereford, Somer- would be incumbent on the Geneva set, Monmouth, Worcestershire, Committee to ask for the memoran- Gloucester and Devon, who, in vari- dum. ous grades and with many varieties of trees, produced last year the fruit which fermented into Eng- land's apple wine at its very best.
And the men of Somerset again carried off most of the principal prizes. The biggest success was achieved by Mr. W. Porter, of East Ladbrook, with apples of the Tay- lor strain. He secured the prizes
FRANCO-TURKISH
ACCORD
Settlement Of Sandjak Problem
Heading Towards Revolution
Madras, To-day.
The Congress Party has been piling up successive difficulties in the way of its being able to accept office, declared Sir K. V. Reddinayadu, the Chief Minister of Madras Province in the course of a speech at Pulla.
If Handicapped By Rheumatism
Let Tonic Treatment With Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
Geneva, To-day. The French and Turkish dele- for sweet varieties and a special gates signed last Saturday at Geneva award for the condition of his fruit, two agreements which had been Mr. Chumley, one of the Bristol negotiated at Ankara, simultaneous- University experts who work at the ly with the Geneva discussions on research station, said that although the Sandjak of Alexandretta. the apple crop was good last year. The first agreement guarantees/ with the constitutional difficul-Williams Pink Pills the cider made from it is not of the territorial integrity of Sandjak,
unusual quality. The lack of sun- which is to be demilitarised ac- shine lowered the sugar content of Cording to the new Statute.
the fruit, and the beverage has not The second agreement which will
for
the full aroma which a sunny sum- also be submitted to Syria mer alone can bring.
signature, guarantees the Turkish- The Earl of Feversham, Parlia-Syrian border.—Trans-Ocean. mentary Secretary to theTM Ministry
of Agriculture, who distributed the The R.M.S.-"Empress of Japan" prizes, said the home cider industry leaves Shanghai for Hong Kong meant $25,000 a year to the farmers and Manila next. Wednesday at 4.00 and could be further expanded.
Onions, cucumbers, asparagus and a The R.M.S. "Empress of Russia number of pot plants can now be freely is due at Nagasaki on Tuesday imported into France from the United 6.00 a.m. and leaves Yokohama Kingdom according to a decree of the “Journal - OfficieL”
Saturday 1.00 a.m.
proved
Drive It Out of Your Blood Because medical science is still puz- zling. over the causes of rheumatism. is no reason why sufferers from this The Minister dealt exhaustive- crippling malady should continue to ly with the problems associated endure its pains. The fact that Dr-
remedy for; rheumatism with a world- the Congress Party, who, with ficiently convincing evidence that here- ties caused by the attitude wide-record of cures, should be majority membership of the in is to be found a specific of excep
tional merit. “ form ministries, and asked: Legislatures are refusing to
Whatever the predisposing causes, it is in the blood that the rheumatism “Is it a baseless suspicion that poisons are conveyed throughout the members of Congress are, simply body to the muscles a joints wherein evading the task of governing the they lodge, causing the stiffness, awell- ing and acute pain which are character- province they are dwelling in?stic symptoms of the disease. Dr. Sir K. V. Reddinayadu went on w am to suggest that their purpose was the creation of militant dissatisfac- tion which would not cease with the mere wrecking of the Government of India Act, on which the new Con- stitution is framed, but will plunge: the country into revolution - ter.
Pink Pills not only rapidly the blood, but they enrich and the blood stream, thus building - nerves, and imparting new life, <and-strength to the whole
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